Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Designer Sirlin's biggest challenge was the jail cell, which in the tryout occupied the entire stage. Now it is an authentically crowded 8 ft. by 10 ft., with two beds, a sink and a toilet. Says Sirlin: "A musical about two guys singing to each other in a cell . . . well, it has limitations. Then I realized confinement can be a kind of infinity. There is no end to the enigmatic pieces of jail you see. I wanted many layers of seclusion that you could still see through, to symbolize the lack of privacy and to turn the layers into...
Educators urging students to hit the books received a horrible setback. During a Chicago Bulls home game, spectator Don Calhoun, an Indiana salesman, was randomly chosen to try a wildly improbable promotional stunt: sink a basket from the opposite foul line, 75 ft. away. Amazingly, Calhoun swished the shot and grabbed the prize: $1 million...
...than a repressive force. Some thoughtful cops recognize the problem. "The public has to remember that we are their police force," says homicide detective Rick Wermuth. "If they don't recover some confidence in us and return some support to us, we'll all be headed down until we sink into some lawless new wild West...
...Democrats must also do their part. In their first nomination opportunity since Kennedy, the Democrats should resist the temptation to bend to the liberal interest groups who desire revenge via a left-wing choice. An overly qualified, centrist choice would indicate that Clinton does not intend to sink to the cynical level of his predecessors. Democrats in the Senate must not give in to pressure to apply an abortion litmus test to the nominee; they have to be ready to have legitimate disagreements with the nominee on matters of interpretation without throwing the judge out with the baby...
...this part of some diabolical conspiracy to reduce women to the sum of their private parts? No; the surface reason is simpler. "It's economics," says writer-director Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally . . ., This Is My Life). "Movies cost more than ever. What studios look for when they sink $20 million into a movie is some way to get their money back. So they put one of 12 male stars...